Rudall Hayward

Legendary filmmaker Rudall Hayward, MBE, directed seven features over five decades — decades in which the concept of Kiwi movie-making was still an oxymoron, or meant a foreigner was behind the camera. Inspired by NZ’s cross-cultural history, Hayward remade his own Rewi’s Last Stand in 1940. Later he married Rewi’s star Ramai Te Miha, and launched a filmmaking partnership that lasted until Rudall’s death in May 1974.